Mac maniacs drag down part of AT&T’s network

OK, OK. We know AT&T moved its headquarters out of San Antonio, but we just couldn’t resist sharing this one.

Apple geeks attending the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco have apparently been in such a frenzy using the digital features on their iPhones that it’s rendered AT&T’s wireless data network in the area all but unusable. Or so says ZDNet’s The Apple Core blog.

“About half of my calls don’t connect, fail in the middle or otherwise have weird silent dropouts throughout the call,” writes ZDNet’s Jason D. O’Grady. “People, can you please get off the 3G network so that I can have a little bandwidth?”

Wonder how many San Francisco’s AT&T wireless subscribers are overjoyed that this is the final MacWorld. Quite a few, we’d wager.